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Projects have become an essential instrument for the success of universities. In a context of globalization and increasing complexity, they must sharpen their resourcefulness to face these challenges and adapt to this changing environment. To reach these objectives, they undertake a series of activities of a unique, concrete and temporary nature, not always technical but managerial ones. If universities work with people on projects in the production, transmission and dissemination of knowledge, then they link with society to solve its problems. For this reason, teaching and research staff (TRS) should promote a range of professional project management (PM) competences in different areas for the proper management of the projects in which they take part. Through a Delphi technique, a panel of twenty-four accredited teaching experts who are carrying out significant research and holding directive roles, measured the importance of acquiring and/or improving professional PM competences by their TRS. Consensus and stability reached after two rounds of consultation confirmed there are a series of crucial competences for the practice of relevant teaching and pioneer research. Results obtained are the basis for a gap plan that allows the TRS to participate in and/or lead university projects with greater self-confidence and personal motivation.

Tattoos serve as a valuable tool for identification. In the forensic context, it is vital to establish a systematic approach for documenting tattoo-related information to facilitate efficient and fast comparisons, especially in postmortem cases. Despite some countries failing to recognize the potential significance of tattoos, this study presents a methodological framework for gathering comprehensive data on this form of body modification. This article presents the results of an investigation made in Mexico during 2019–2022. The proposed methodology introduces a systematic and distinct classification system tailored to the country in which it will be implemented. The proposal is accompanied by applying the methodology in a Forensic Medical Service (SEMEFO) in Mexico for a week to test its effectiveness and speed under high workloads and stressful conditions. The novelty of this article lies in emphasizing the need for established, replicable, and homologous methodologies for tattoo codification. Additionally, it presents a more in-depth codification, where the details of the tattoos to be classified are thoroughly analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International education, particularly through study abroad experiences, has the potential of preparing students for a globally interconnected world. While challenging, it is necessary to translate aspirations of global citizenship into educational programs and assessing their effectiveness. A necessary step in such process consists in taking a close and critical look at the challenges and possibilities for the development of global citizenship through education abroad. In this paper, I follow a decolonizing autoethnographic approach to explore obstacles for the development of global citizenship through education abroad. If education abroad is to promote global citizenship and character development, I propose a more authentic engagement with the local cultures and a better understanding of globalization--before going abroad--is necessary.

Mexico has a long history of tensions between the government and student activists. This history dates back to student protests that ended with the State's violent repression of students in 1968. These tensions were reignited with the student occupation of Mexico's National Autonomous University from 1999 to 2000, which ended through intervention by the national federal police. In the 21st century, student expression and activism occurs in the physical world as well as on social media sites. For example, the hashtag #YoSoy132 was created by a student movement begun at the Jesuit "Universidad Iberoamericana" in opposition to the then candidate and now President of the country, Enrique Peña Nieto. In this paper, we conceptualize social media sites as virtual public spaces, and we employ cultural critical visual discourse analysis to examine the case of student "hashtivism," online activism through hashtags, in response to the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa in September 2014.

In this article, the notion of excellence in relation to teaching is removed from its privileged place in order to render it, and its implications, for analysis. We argue that teaching excellence needs to be understood in the larger context of the neoliberal university in which competition is taken for granted, and therefore, metrics for comparison are evermore necessary. Following this argument, we explore excellence as an instrument of neoliberal ideology in higher education. We explore different manifestations of teaching excellence enacted in policies that that are illustrative of five different countries. Implications for further analysis, and for resistance to the expansion of neoliberal ideology through teaching excellence, are presented.

Institutional accreditation in higher education holds universities accountable through external evaluation; at the same time, accreditation constitutes an opportunity for higher education leaders to demonstrate the quality of their institutions. In an increasingly global field of higher education, in which quality practices become diffused across national boundaries, U.S. institutional accreditation has been adopted in many countries as a form of external quality assurance. This study follows an ethnographic case study approach to explore in-depth how a Mexican institution of higher education, located only a few miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in the process of institutional accreditation with a U.S. regional accrediting agency. Four themes constitute the finding of this study: (a) Reputational value is the central motivation to pursue U.S. accreditation given that, through accreditation, the institution in Mexico became connected to internationally recognized universities; (b) despite several benefits, the accreditation process established a complex division of labor in which members of the academic staff are necessary yet distanced from decision making; (c) compliance with highly challenging--yet construed as fair--standards legitimizes both the accreditation process and the U.S. accreditor; and (d) language and translation are valuable concepts to understand the accreditation process. Together, these findings suggest that U.S. accreditation may be approached as an exercise of global position taking.

Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US institutional accreditation in Mexico. Such analysis unearths the power relations that underpin the emergent internationalization of quality practices in higher education.

This essay explores the career of the understudied writer Pedro Castera (1846-1906), who is regarded as one of the first practitioners of science fiction in Mexico. A man of many talents, Castera is one of the most eccentric and eclectic figures in the intellectual life of fin-de-siècle Mexico City. His career took many turns: While during specific periods he devoted himself to writing and participating within the liberal, cosmopolitan culture of Mexico City, he often disappeared from the public eye to devote himself to the development of inventions in the mining industry. The essay discusses the different meanings of "invention" within Castera's oeuvre, namely poetic and scientific innovation. Setting these two concepts within the domains of literature and scientific writing in the global and local fin de siècle, the essay investigates how Castera's journalism and fiction (specifically his 1890 novel "Querens") are representative of the wider question of scientific development in Mexico and Latin America as a whole during the nineteenth century. Furthermore, it explores the intersections of aesthetics and science during a critical period of modern intellectual history, in which these two areas of knowledge were gradually defining themselves as two distinctive cultures.

This article explores the concepts of "brand" and "franchise" in the development of international quality assurance. The impact of corporate language and culture on higher education is evident and has been extensively analysed. Recent attention given to branding of universities reflects the ever-growing influence of corporate language and ideas. This article presents a conceptual exploration, grounded in a case study that documented the accreditation process of a Mexican university by a United States (US) regional agency. Discourses of exclusivity and legitimacy were widespread in the case; US accreditation was construed as a symbol of international quality given that US higher education hosts world-renowned universities with reputations that, like brands, can be franchised internationally. It is argued here that such new developments warrant further study and critique.

The European honey bee, Apis mellifera L., is the bee species with the largest geographic distribution in the world. It is considered a pollinator generalist of wild plants and agricultural crops, as well as honey bee products as honey, beeswax, and propolis. For this reason, it plays an extremely important role in the world's ecosystems, economy, and food security. However, Apis mellifera is facing population declines due to biotic and abiotic factors, such as climate change, habitat loss, agrochemical use, and emerging pests and diseases. Pests and diseases are directly associated with a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), which is linked with the loss of millions of bee colonies annually worldwide. One particularly important pest is the varroa mite, which is already widely distributed and is considered the major threat to apiculture. In this review, we compile documentation of the presence and distribution of pests and diseases reported to affect Apis mellifera in Mexico. Surveys demonstrate that the following pests are present: Varroa destructor, Acarapis woodi, Aethina tumida, Galleria mellonella, as well as the diseases caused by Melissococcus plutonius, Paenibacillus larvae, Vairimorpha (Nosema) apis, V. ceranae, Ascosphaera apis and several viruses. It should be noted that the distribution and presence of European bee pathogens throughout the beekeeping states of Mexico is not very well defined, due to the lack of current bee health studies in apiaries or nationwide databases to quickly update information on their distribution and incidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropogenic changes pose a significant threat to global biodiversity, especially in reptiles. Mexico, renowned for its diverse reptile population, is experiencing habitat disturbance and fragmentation, endangering rattlesnakes in particular due to their specific habitat requirements and limited mobility. The loss of structural connectivity further increases the risk of extinction for reptiles. Our study focuses on predicting the distribution and connectivity of nine Crotalus species in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB), using environmental modeling. We used climate models (CNRM-CM5 and MPI-ESM-LR) for the year 2050 and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 85) alongside changes in vegetation cover and land use. The Maxent modeling method in ENMeval helped assess distribution patterns and to identify key environmental variables influencing these species' distributions and niche overlap. We also conducted an analysis of the structural connectivity of the different Crotalus species. Our findings indicate reductions in suitable habitats due to changes in agriculture, urbanization, and forest cover. The Maxent models showed high accuracy in predicting species distributions. The most influential variables varied among species and included forest types and climatic factors. We observed limited connectivity among small Crotalus species, although some species exhibited greater connectivity than others. Future models suggest potential distribution reductions for all species, with C. armstrongi facing the greatest reduction (78%) according to the cn85 global climate model. Protected areas do not encompass the majority of potential distribution for these small rattlesnake species. These findings highlight the urgency of conservation efforts and the need to mitigate the impacts of future environmental changes on reptile populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Highlights • Reduced Impact Logging lowers carbon emissions from selective logging. • Forest certification was not related to reduced carbon emissions. • Modified agricultural tractors for skidding significantly reduces emissions. Abstract On the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, communities (ejidos) that selectively log their forests help reduce deforestation and are an important source of timber for national and international markets. If carried out without proper planning and reduced-impact logging (RIL) practices, forest disturbances and carbon emissions from these harvests can be substantial. To assess variation in logging-induced emissions and to estimate potential reductions in those emissions, we estimated carbon impacts from damage to trees > 5 cm DBH in the annual cutting areas of ten forest-managing ejidos. Baselines were developed for emissions from felling, skidding and transport of timber and then ejidos were compared with respect to whether they were Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, size of annual cutting area, logging intensity, and implementation of RIL practices, particularly directional felling, skid trail planning, and the use of small modified agricultural tractors instead of large forestry skidders. The carbon impacts of enrichment planting in multiple-tree felling gaps (400–1800 m2) were also evaluated. Carbon emissions from selective logging averaged 1.52 Mg m−3 but ranged 1.19–2.55 Mg m−3 among the 10 ejidos. Most emissions were from the remnants of trees felled for their timber (73%), followed by skidding (11%), transport infrastructure (i.e. logging roads and landings; 8%), and collateral damage from felling (7%). Our analyses indicate that FSC certification was not associated with any difference in carbon emissions from selective logging but that employment of RIL practices resulted in fewer damaged trees and lower carbon emissions even in ejidos with high logging intensities. Use of modified agricultural tractors for log yarding (i.e., skidding) reduced C emissions by 0.15 Mg m−3 or 5 Mg km−1 of skid trail. Greater collateral damage was found in multiple felling gaps but the increased emissions were offset by reductions in the remnants of harvest trees. Adoption of RIL-C practices by all community forestry ejidos in the region would contribute substantially to the Mexican forest sector's efforts to mitigate climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the impact of judicial reform in Mexico. It does so using a survey about crime victimization and perceptions of insecurity (Encuesta Nacional Sobre la Inseguridad [ENSI]) collected in 2005, 2008, and 2009 in 11 Mexican cities, 3 of which implemented the reform in 2007 and 2008. This analysis shows that judicial reform not only reduces victimization but also lowers perceptions of security. Although we find that judicial reform has a negative effect on trust in the local and federal police, judicial reform reduces the probability of being asked by the transit police for a bribe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• We studied bark beetle outbreaks patterning (elevation and year) and climate in Mexico. • We used datasets of outbreak phytosanitary logging authorizations and TerraClimate. • Outbreaks on Abies religiosa occur on pure and better-preserved stands. • Outbreaks on Pinus pseudostrobus occur on the lower elevational limit (xeric limit) • Logging authorization coincides with driest Palmer Drought Severity Index anomaly. Climate change is an important risk factor for forest ecosystems through alteration of forest disturbance regimes such as bark beetle outbreaks, which in some places now are more successfully attacking host trees weakened by hotter drought events. In Mexico, ties between climate and amplified outbreaks of bark beetles have begun to be documented, although these relationships are not entirely clear. This project aims to identify the geographic patterning and relations between climate and bark beetle outbreaks in Abies religiosa and Pinus pseudostrobus populations located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt region. We used: 1) a database of phytosanitary logging authorizations and locations issued to enable salvage logging of trees infested or killed by bark beetle outbreaks from 2009 to 2018; 2) a previously developed gridded database of contemporary suitable climatic habitat of these tree species that will be lost by 2060 to determine if outbreaks occurred in sites with climatic habitat lost; and 3) elevation values to determine if outbreaks occur at xeric limits (drought limits) of tree hosts. Climate analysis was conducted with TerraClimate data using PDSI (Palmer's Drought Severity Index) values. We find that bark beetle outbreaks do not necessarily occur at sites where models project that both species will lose suitable climatic habitat. For A. religiosa (Sacred Fir), of the 4091 ha treated by sanitary logging , 40% occurs between 3000 and 3100 m of elevation, where the pure and relatively better-preserved Sacred Fir stands are found. For P. pseudostrobus, more than 54% of the sanitary logging area (4664 ha) ranges from 2200 to 2400 m a.s.l., which coincides with the lower elevation limit (xeric limit) of the natural distribution of the species. Regarding relationships with PDSI, for A. religiosa there was a one-year lag between the year of mortality (expressed by the year of the phytosanitary logging authorization) and the year with the most negative (driest) PDSI anomaly (one year before), while for Pinus pseudostrobus , phytosanitary logging authorizations were concentrated in the driest year. An investigation that considers more variables, especially anthropogenic factors, is necessary to be able to better understand the dynamics of forest pests and prevent unusual outbreaks induced by expected climate-change-amplified droughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An essay is presented on the case of WikiLeaks in Mexico, based from stories in the newspaper "La Jornada," presented by Mexican journalist Blanche Petrich. It says that "La Jornada" became the sixth newspaper that received almost 3,000 classified cables from Sunshine Press Productions, which conclude that Mexico is a so-called penetrated state by the U.S. Moreover, Petrich says that the cables offer evidence of perceptions, opinions, and concerns by U.S. officials on the Mexican government.

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In order to present an exercise showing the importance of mixed methodology, this paper offers an exploratory approach to the simultaneous use of data sources clearly identified with qualitative and quantitative research styles. In doing so we took as a starting point a different platform than the one traditionally used in the field of labor studies, at least in Mexico. Instead of having as a main frame of reference a statistical database, we first analyzed qualitative information on a group of Mexican urban, middle-class women. One of the means we have found of linking the two sources has been to construct a typology-with quantitative data and similar to one previously elaborated in a qualitative study-to describe the possible links between four life trajectories (school, work, marriage and child-bearing). Combining a quantitative analysis with the results of a previous qualitative study was precisely what made it possible to both enrich and reinforce the proposal of the existence of diversity within homogeneity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a study that assessed the performance of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L. barriers planted above fescue filter strips under interill and concentrated flow and fescue alone under interill and concentrated flow for reducing run-off, sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus loss from fallow plots on a Mexico silt loam. This study is in line with exploring the runoff flow condition dependency of the effectiveness of grass barriers and vegetative filter strips for reducing transport of sediment and nutrients. Results of the study showed that barriers combined with filter strips can be an effective alternative to filter strips alone for sites where concentrated flows may occur.

Assesses mangrove vegetation from 1970 to 1993 of the Santiago River Mouth, Nayarit, West of Mexico to describe the plant composition and structure of mangrove and to evaluate the deforestation level and its amplitude by means of a retrospective analysis of mangrove species using LandsatTM imagery. Method used to map cover area and distribution of mangrove; Comparative study of earlier recorded mangrove vegetation area.

The Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a pest of citrus crops in Mexico. A two years study was conducted aimed to analyze the spatio-temporal occurrence of traps that capture sexually mature A. ludens females in a citrus area in Mexico. Generalized linear mixed models were used to evaluate the monthly fluctuation of traps that captured sexually mature A. ludens females. A non-parametric interpolation, the Voronoi diagrams, was used to analyze spatial patterns of such traps according to availability levels of commercial hosts. The monthly analysis revealed a high activity of sexually mature females linked to a high availability of commercial hosts such as the orange fruit cultivar 'Valencia' in January, February, March, and April. By contrast, negative trends were showed when a lower availability of commercial hosts was observed from May to September. The availability of grapefruit from October yielded an increase of traps with capture of mature females. A spatial heterogeneity was depicted by the Voronoi diagrams regarding the distribution of traps with mature females. Such spatial variability was linked to availability levels of the commercial hosts across the year. The prevalence of areas with high levels of mature females in autumn continued to be present until the spring. This study provided evidence of an intrapopulation variability of A. ludens associated with a geographical space and temporal patterns. Practical implications for an Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) approach are discussed. • Trapping provides insight into variability of Anastrepha ludens populations. • Voronoi diagrams modeled the capture of sexually mature A. ludens females. • A heterogeneous distribution of mature A. ludens females is displayed. • Temporal variations of traps capturing mature A. ludens females are exhibited. • The spatial analysis helps to prevent high infestations over citrus areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports results of a study in three Mexican states, Baja California, Oaxaca, and Sinaloa, and presents population-based tuberculosis (TB) drug-resistance data. Resistance to first-line treatment drugs, isoniazid, rifampin, and pyrazinamide; The number of patients reporting with acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear-positive pulmonary TB; Effect of acquired resistance. INSET: CDC editorial note.